Stock market reaction to dividend announcements: Emprical evidence from Malaysia

The study investigated the Malaysian stock market reaction to dividend announcements. The study focused on cash dividend announcements for the period of 2009-2010. The data was extracted from Bursa Malaysia official website. In particular, the research examined both the stock price reaction and trad...

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spelling my-mmu-ep.38772013-06-20T01:04:06Z Stock market reaction to dividend announcements: Emprical evidence from Malaysia 2013-05-13 Karbalaee, Seyed Mohammadreza HG Finance The study investigated the Malaysian stock market reaction to dividend announcements. The study focused on cash dividend announcements for the period of 2009-2010. The data was extracted from Bursa Malaysia official website. In particular, the research examined both the stock price reaction and trading volume reaction to annual cash dividend announcements. The study employed 115 announcements of final dividend among 65 listed companies by dividing the sample to three clusters of dividend increase, decrease and constant dividend. The event study methodology with market model adjustment to compute the abnormal return and abnormal trading volume was employed as a research method. 2013-05 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3877/ http://vlib.mmu.edu.my/diglib/login/dlusr/login.php masters Multimedia University Graduate School of Management
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topic HG Finance
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Karbalaee, Seyed Mohammadreza
Stock market reaction to dividend announcements: Emprical evidence from Malaysia
description The study investigated the Malaysian stock market reaction to dividend announcements. The study focused on cash dividend announcements for the period of 2009-2010. The data was extracted from Bursa Malaysia official website. In particular, the research examined both the stock price reaction and trading volume reaction to annual cash dividend announcements. The study employed 115 announcements of final dividend among 65 listed companies by dividing the sample to three clusters of dividend increase, decrease and constant dividend. The event study methodology with market model adjustment to compute the abnormal return and abnormal trading volume was employed as a research method.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Karbalaee, Seyed Mohammadreza
author_facet Karbalaee, Seyed Mohammadreza
author_sort Karbalaee, Seyed Mohammadreza
title Stock market reaction to dividend announcements: Emprical evidence from Malaysia
title_short Stock market reaction to dividend announcements: Emprical evidence from Malaysia
title_full Stock market reaction to dividend announcements: Emprical evidence from Malaysia
title_fullStr Stock market reaction to dividend announcements: Emprical evidence from Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Stock market reaction to dividend announcements: Emprical evidence from Malaysia
title_sort stock market reaction to dividend announcements: emprical evidence from malaysia
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Graduate School of Management
publishDate 2013
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